CALL TO A CROW - APPELLE UN CORBEAU, 2024

CALL TO A CROW- APPELLE UN CORBEAU, 2024

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This leporello presents a collection of short poems by David Horvitz, written for the first Son Biennale (2023). Each poem is an invitation to connect with the environment, inspired by the Alpine landscape. Phrases such as "Imagine the sound of the footsteps of someone who is no more", "Imagine the silence emanating from a vanished glacier" or "Call a raven until a raven calls you back" offer readers a contemplative experience, connecting the natural with the poetic.
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These texts, in English and French, were set in space by graphic designer Romain Iannone. They were distributed on the Valais poster network, on a large billboard in the town center - where EDHEA (Valais School of Design and Art College) regularly programs graphic and artistic proposals - and in the local press.

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David Horvitz (b. 1982, based in Los Angeles) studied at the University of California and Waseda University in Tokyo before earning an MFA at Bard College in 2010. Influenced by Bas Jan Ader and On Kawara, he poetically explores our relationships to time, language and exchange, through writing, photography, performance, mail art and interventions in digital, natural and social contexts. Winner of the Follow Fluxus - After Fluxus scholarship in Wiesbaden (2020), he has been praised for the playful yet critical spirit of his practice, and for his use of simple, everyday means to express complex ideas. Horvitz describes the ocean as his "workshop": in When the ocean sounds (2020), he transcribed its sounds using the English alphabet to create posters and a flag. Other works include sending cuttings from his Californian garden to Berlin during confinement, and enclosing LA's Air in glass vials, a homage to Duchamp that also evokes the viral threat and smoke of fires.